The Director of Public Health introduced the report which provided an update on work to develop a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Wirral. The report detailed the work that had been undertaken to produce the strategy, and it was further reported that the Strategy had now been approved by the Health and Wellbeing Board and would be shared with the Place Based Partnership Board following the meeting.

The Director of Public Health detailed the issues around the worsening gap in life expectancy across Wirral as well as the over declining life expectancy for Wirral residents, with the Health and Wellbeing Strategy recognising the importance of the factors that affect people’s health. It was reported that the Health and Wellbeing Board has established a steering group to help deliver the priorities within the strategy with members of the Public Health team identified as leads for each priority and sought co-leads from partner organisations around the table.

Members of the Board discussed the challenges in turning the desired outcomes of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy into implementable actions to improve health outcomes for residents.

Resolved – That the development of the Wirral Health and Wellbeing Strategy be noted.